100 E. D. Maclagan— Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [No. 1, 
mon crime of infanticide. The heathen accordingly took counsel 
together against him as follows :— 
‘As concerns the Nawab, it will be sufficient to accuse the Father every 
day of grievous things which even if they are not believed will be enough 
to throw discredit upon him. We can do this the more easily that his 
friends the Nawabs Xamaradin [? Qamru-d-din] and Xencdo [Zain Khan] 
are dead,! and the present Nawab Calichic&o is hostile to him, as he has 
shown on many occasions because of the religion he preaches. So we shall 
get the Father driven from Lahor and the church, which we hate, destroyed.’ 
For the time being Pinheiro was able to re-assure the Governor, 
but shortly afterwards the Hindis, obtaining the aid of a young man 
who was a favourite of the Governor’s,— 
‘Gave him a rich present from the heathen who were the Father’s ene- 
mies, together with a defamatory libel: the best things contained in it 
were that the Father ate human flesh, fattened up young men and sent them 
away to be sold in Portuguese lands, murdered people and had killed a 
tailor’s wife not four days ago: that he was a great wizard and by his 
spells made men renounce their religion and adopt an unknown one, and so 
he had done to the son of a pandit,’ &c. 
The Governor was still afraid to seize any Christians in the city 
in case the matter should come to Akbar’s ears, but he determined 
to seize any whom he could find in the Fort. A Portuguese was 
thereupon arrested inside the Fort and after much beating was 
induced to say the Kalma, ‘ their cursed Muhammadan creed,’ after 
which he was kept under guard but well treated. Pinheiro at once 
went to confront the Governor, but could not see him ‘as he was 
occupied with a visitor of whom a great deal is made by some because 
he is learned and a son of a great master among the former Kings of 
Camarcaio [Samarqand], by others because he is the son-in-law of the 
King of Maivenar (Mawaran-nahr) and Camarcao.’ When Pinheiro 
gained admittance, he protested against the Governor’s conduct, but 
Qulij Khan swore by Martes Alli (Murtiza ‘Ali), by the Prophet’s head 
and his own, that no compulsion had been used to make the Portuguese 
turn Muhammadan. Pinheiro had to go away in sorrow, but on his 
way through the city saw the man being negligently guarded, where- 
upon, he says, he ‘drew near with unutterable joy and taking the 
lost sheep upon his shoulders bore him out of the city’ The Portuguese 
having been sent off to Agra and his wife and children having been 
put in safety, Pinheiro was able once more to confront the Governor 
and submit to examination. ‘ When asked,’ he says, ‘what had become 
of the man, I answered that he had not been to my house nor to his 
1 See p. 84 above. 
